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Comment by corbulo | Hacker News Reader

I can already feel the outrage dying. Yesterday Elon was tech hitler for it, today Reddit is just doing 'what was inevitable anyway'.

One of the best parts about social media is watching swarms of people who know nothing pivot around things you know something about.

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I feel API pricing is fine if the API money is more valuable for a platform than what's being built with it. If you have something valuable and you're not getting value from giving it away, sure.

The issue I have with Twitter's new API pricing is it's not either - it's paying a lot for a little, so feels more like an explicit move to stop companies building on Twitter. Like it's trying to kill the API altogther.

There’s a key difference here, in that Reddit bots still operate for free and Twitter bots don’t.

Always a rule of thumb with Elon topics - try to distill whether people are objecting to the principle or to the absurd cack-handed way Elon attempts to implement that principle. Because more often than not a good version what Musk attempts is fine, it's just he's not competent enough to produce the good version.

What exactly are you talking about? How are API access and verifying your identity as a person of public interest the same thing?

Or is it because of things you know something about and I don't that I cannot understand what you are talking about?

Your unneeded hitler comparison doesn't really inspire confidence in your knowledge either.

Do you have sources about the people comparing Musk to Hitler?

One day, once you attempt to understand others points of view in good faith, you will find much less confusion and more peace. Peace be with you.

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